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Shootout At Wadala
Critic reviews and ratings
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...a fire-brand, paisa vasool entertainer.
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SAW ultimately belongs to Gupta, who stays true to the genre and makes a welcome return to the credible lot of Bollywood directors.
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Gratifyingly, Sanjay Gupta doesn’t glorify Manya Surve. He is presented as someone whose life spiralled out of control, more of a doomed figure than a wonder hero. And that’s what makes 'Shootout at Wadala', quite a few cuts above the commonplace.
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...will appeal to those who crave for a masala potboiler set in the 80's with corny dialogues, sexual innuendos and enough bang to match your buck.
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it is a gangsta trip throbbing with adrenaline rush and Gupta does well to underplay the melodrama so as not to dilute the impact.
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Flawed though it may be, the film is entertaining and moving for the most part.
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...would have been fun if it made no bones about being an unabashed crowd-pleaser, rather than the “authentic” docu-drama it annoyingly pretends to be and using the premise as a license to indulge in three Bs – bullets, breasts and (what you also end up telling yourself after watching it), “bhenchod.”
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The film is generally entertaining without attaining the sort of innate quality that could attract favourable comparisons with Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya and Company or Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Parinda.
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...it has something new to offer and something to whistle for but as usual, it should have been far better than it turned out.
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It's hardcore, over-the-top masala. Which is an acquired taste.
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...is pulpy, kitschy, Bollywood masala that makes no bones about its intentions: To titillate.
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...lacks innovation and courtesy the long run time and jarring songs ends up disappointing the audience.
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Sadly, the content here takes a serious backseat.
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...a squib of a film that relies on one too many "b****c**ds".
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What stops it from becoming the film that it could have is an avalanche of dialogue, the sort of smart-alecky lines that sounded so right in the 70s.
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Watch SAW if you have a fetish for ’80s pulp films, where voluptuous babes, larger-than-life goons and dishum dishum galore were the order of the day.
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...seems to be the kind of film that will be enjoyed by people who like this mix of moderately gory action, toilet humor and aggressive romance.
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A loose, directionless script and insipid dialogues take their toll half an hour into the film.
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...revels in its violence, yet sadly all the bloodshed leaves you unaffected and cold.
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...the film never becomes anything more than a proficiently made cops-and-robbers thriller.
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It's unfortunate that despite such a great cast, what you get is a mediocre, offensive film.
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Instead of this self-indulgent gore-fest, we would have appreciated a little more focus on the gangsters' psyche.
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